Priors Dean Church
PRIORS DEAN CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1237077
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORS DEAN CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1237077
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1954
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORS DEAN CHURCH
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORS DEAN CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colemore and Priors Dean
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 72783 29601
Details
COLEMORE & PRIORS DEAN PRIORS DEAN SU 72 NW 9/3 Priors Dean Church 16.3.54 II* GV Parish church, without dedication. C11, C13, Restoration of 1856. Aisleless Romanesque building, of possible Saxon origin, with north porch and western bell turret. Cemented walls, 2 flat and 1 stepped buttresses at the south side, Norman north door, slender Victorian/Norman windows, with one original lancet and a small blocked Norman window on the south wall of the chancel. Tiled roof, hipped at the west, with a stepped bell turret (1856), having a small broach spire. Tiled roof to open porch, with a timber frame on stone walls. Interior: plain walls with deep reveals, a 'Norman' chancel arch (1856) with couple ½-columns (with cushion caps); at the west end the 4 massive timber piers (medieval) which support the bell turret (1856). The chief feature of the church is the series of monuments in the chancel, including (1) a wall monument with a Corinthian frame enclosing 2 oval recesses containing the portrait busts of John Compton and his wife Jane (died 1653 and 1634), (2) a similar wall monument with Ionic pilasters and marble portrait bust of Compton Tichborne (1637), (3) a wall monument with Corinthian flame enclosing a kneeling female figure (and 2 small children) to N Stoughton and Bridge Compton (1631), (4) a classical monument with a kneeling female figure, of Eliz Tichborne (1622) and (5) a monumental brass on a floor stone, of John Compton and Jane Michelborne (died 1606 and 1586). There is a 'Norman' font of 1856, and a chair of 1657.
Listing NGR: SU7255030025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 143137
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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